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Definition: Unstuck |
UnstuckAdjective1. Free; "a man with a mule got my car unstuck"; "the gears locked in second and would not come unstuck". 2. Thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence; "price programs became unstuck because little grain was available". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unstuck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
Synonym: UnstuckSynonym: undone (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: stuck (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unstuck |
| English words defined with "unstuck": undone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unstuck": stick-slip. (references) |
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| "Unstuck" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.96% of the time. "Unstuck" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.96% | 96 | 33,456 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 1.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 1.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 98 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unstuck": come unstuck ♦ get unstuck. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unstuck | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unstuck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shkatërruar (bombed out, broken, desolate, ramshackle, smitten, tumble down, uncreated), i çliruar (exempt, released). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاشل (failing, fruitless, futile, good for nothing, unsuccessful, washed up), مخفق (diluted, fruitless, unsuccessful), غير مثبت (unassertive). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разхлабен (loose, slack, unstrung), отлепен (unglued), незалепен (unmounted). (various references) | |
Czech | zkrachovat (come under hammer, crash, go bankrupt, go to pot, go under, peg out), odlepit se (come away), nepřipevnìný (unattached), špatnì pochodit. (various references) | |
French | décollé, échoué. (various references) | |
German | frei gelassen. (various references) | |
Greek | ξεκολλημένοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא "בוק, חופשי (ad. lib., at large, facile, free, loose). (various references) | |
Hungarian | leragasztatlan. (various references) | |
Italian | scollare (get unstuck, unglue, unstick). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 剥がれる (to come unstuck from). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はがれる (to come unstuck from). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uckunstay.(various references) | |
Russian | свободный (at liberty, clear, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, free-hand, immune, leisurely, loose, open, quit, roomy, spare, unbound, unhampered, uninhibited, unoccupied, vacant), неприклеенный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji je odlepio. (various references) | |
Spanish | despegado (délamination). (various references) | |
Swedish | loss (loose). (various references) | |
Turkish | gevşemiş (languishing, loose, relaxed, unfastened), gevşek (airy, crank, drooping, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, halfhearted, laidback, lax, limp, listless, loose, nonrigid, non-rigid, slack, slouching, slouchy, supine), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chưa gỡ, chưa bóc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Unstuck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ukstu, unstick, unstocked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unstuck" (pronounced unstu"k) |
| 4 | -s t u" k | stuck. |
| 3 | -t u" k | tuck. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: untucks. | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-n-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: untuck. | |
-2 letters: snuck, stuck, stunk, tucks, uncus, uncut. | |
-3 letters: cusk, cuts, nuts, scut, stun, suck, sunk, tuck, tuns, tusk. | |
-4 letters: cut, nus, nut, sun, tsk, tun, uns, uts. | |
-5 letters: nu, un, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-k-n-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: sunstruck. | |
+3 letters: unluckiest. | |
+4 letters: countersunk, turnbuckles. | |
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